With eight weeks of regular season baseball remaining, the Cubs have assumed a commanding position in the standings. Even allowing for Sunday’s loss to the Cardinals, Chicago still has a commanding twelve-game lead over St. Louis in the NL Central. With that kind of margin in mid-August, and a roster with as much talent as this one has, the Cubs […]
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Series Preview: Cubs vs. Brewers, August 16-18
Heavy April rain has made this a four game series, with the oft-dreaded day-night doubleheader to open it, but the Cubs have been wildly successful in the last two weeks, winning 13 of their last 15. Losses on Saturday and Sunday to the Cardinals at the hands of the bullpen have certainly frustrated the fanbase, […]
Tommy La Stella: The Other Way Around The Whole Time
On the surface, the recent Tommy La Stella drama sounds like a deal with the Devil, if the Devil was a terrible negotiator. BEELZEBUB: Hey Tommy, want to be a big league ballplayer? Your salary will be 525 thousand dollars! And you’ll be on TV every day! LA STELLA: Sweet! Where do I sign up? […]
John Lackey Proving Offseason Doubt Wrong
This past December, when word officially broke that the Chicago Cubs would be signing former St. Louis Cardinals starter John Lackey to a 2-year deal, the Cubs corner of the baseball world was met with a mixture of intense emotions. Some folks simply weren’t fond of Lackey, be it on the field or off the field. […]
Game 116 Recap: Cardinals 6 Cubs 4
Out, vile jelly. According to Carrie Muskat, before tonight’s contest, Hector Rondon “gave [Carl Edwards Jr.] a pep talk after Saturday’s game. ‘I told him, “Hey, it happens to everybody…Learn from that.”’ Unfortunately, Twitter’s 140 character limit prevented Muskat from posting the full Rondon quote which apparently ended with “Here, I’ll show you…” Sigh. This […]
Game 115 Recap: Cardinals 8 Cubs 4
Winning streaks are fun trivia, but not worth getting upset about when they come to an end. Had the Cubs pushed their streak to twelve games today, they would have been no more well positioned to win the division and succeed in the playoffs than they are right now after dropping this afternoon’s game to […]
Game 114 Recap: Cubs 13 Cardinals 2
I suppose that if there are statement losses, then this must have been a very big statement win. Last night’s game ended on a bit of a controversial note with the fourth ball that walked in the winning run, and all of that came after the pitch that probably ended Matt Holliday’s season. So today felt […]
Johnson, Developing as a Reliever, Awaits Wrigley Call
Pierce Johnson, it seems like for as long as we can remember, has been the Cubs’ pitching prospect. At a time when hitters dominated the ranks of Chicago’s minor league system, and not to mention all the headlines, Johnson was alone on the pitching side. The hitters have graduated, but Johnson’s trajectory toward the big leagues […]
Trevor Cahill’s Role: The Backup Man With a Plan
As last season fades into a distant memory while a new one takes its place in the minds of fans, you can be certain that the reasons for failure are still fresh in the minds of the Cubs’ front office. The Cubs’ inability to hit the Mets’ vaunted pitching staff in the NLCS led Theo […]
Game 113 Recap: Cubs 4 Cardinals 3
If there were a time capsule that required an item to explain “Cubs versus Cardinals” for future generations, this one might be placed in there alongside some game where David Eckstein did something scrappy and annoying. Top Play (WPA): In general, this game was incredibly painful to watch, but in a good way. Is that possible? […]